Fifty Rare & Important World Maps


            

 


Blaeu's World

Blaeu (Joan): Nova Totius Orbis Terrarum
Hand-coloured engraved map
[Shirley: 255]
22 x 18 in. (560 x 460 mm)
[Amsterdam, c1650]

Ref: WLD 3020


 


Visscher Masterpiece

Visscher (C. & N.): Orbis Totius Terrarum Geographica
Hand-coloured engraved map
[Shirley: 350]
23 x 18 in. (560 x 460 mm.)
[Amsterdam, 1652]

Ref: WLD 1960


 


Visscher Continents

Visscher (Nicolas) : [Nova Europae: America: Asiae: Africae]
4 x hand-coloured engraved maps

22 x 17 in. (560 x 435 mm.)
[Amsterdam, 1652]

Ref: WLD 2171


 


Magnificent Visscher Double Hemisphere

Visscher (C.& N.): [Double Hemisphere]
Hand-coloured engraved map
[Shirley: 350]
21 x 18 in. (530 x 460 mm.)
[Amsterdam, 1658]

Ref: WLD 2983


 


Obscure Double Hemisphere

Walton (Robert) : A New and Accurat Map of the World
Engraved map
[Shirley: 397]
20 x 16 in (510 x 410 mm.)
[London, 1659]

Ref: WLD 977


 


Jesuit World Map

Kilian (Bartholemew): [Untitled World Map]
Hand-coloured engraved map

25 x 36 in. (640 x 920 mm.)
[1664]

Ref: WLD 1782


 


Early Scientific Map

Kircher (Athanasius): Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica
Engraved map
[Shirley: 436]
22 x 13 in. (560 x 330 mm.)
[Amsterdam, 1665]

Ref: WLD 2314


 


De Wit's Maritime

De Wit (Frederick): Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis
Hand-coloured engraved map
[Shirley: 444]
22 x 19 in. (560 x 480 mm.)
[Amsterdam, 1668]

Ref: WLD 3111


 


De Wit's Terrestial

De Wit (Frederick): Nova Orbis Tabula
Hand-coloured engraved map
[Shirley: 451]
22 x 18 in. (560 x 460 mm.)
[Amsterdam, c1670]

Ref: WLD 2325